Social Media

The importance of social media to web marketing can'st be overstated. To quote a few statistics from our Beginner'ss Guide to Social Media, 72% of online adults use social networking sites, and YouTube now reaches more U.S. adults aged 18-34 than any cable network. With that kind of traffic, it's no wonder marketers now use these networks to interact with their customers. Google searches for 'social media' have seen a steady rise since early 2009, and data from this year'ss industry survey tell a similar story. Whether you'sve been in on the game from the very beginning or are just starting to wonder how social tools can apply to your own professional life, the resources on this page can help take you to the next level.

You'sll find the most recent Moz Blog posts about social media below, but first, we'sve hand-picked some of our favorite pieces of content, and would recommend starting here:

Have you thought about making the leap into video content but worry that you lack the technical savvy to pull it off? Well, worry no more. We show you how to make YouTube videos work for your business, and it's far simpler than you think.

What's the default reply to naysayers who claim social media never yields a positive ROI? Build a community! But it's not just about building a community anymore. Too many marketers quantify "community" with meaningless numbers. That's why the reply must be tweaked a bit. Build a community THAT CARES!

In the agency space, we often find ourselves on one side of an epic conflict. The battleground: the lush, rolling hills of the digital marketing landscape. The weapon of choice: social media marketing. Marketing officers (and their overseers in senior management) always seem to want very particular results regarding social; in other words, ways to justify the expense or prove that an agency is "worth its salt."

Social (media) listening is emerging as one of the most powerful tools in the social media block. Also, known as social media monitoring, this platform is now effectively used in business circles to monitor, analyze and then engage in customer interactions in social media networks. Studies have repeatedly shown that listening tools if used strategically can prove to be a useful resource for accessing social media information through organizations.

A common misconception about Instagram is that it only works for brands selling physical products. This popular belief is induced by the hundreds of apparel companies and retailers generating most of the branded content on Instagram. But B2Bs, startups and service providers can market themselves on Instagram too. This article lets you know how.
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Measuring traffic and social metrics for your own site is easy – just take a peek in Google Analytics for a wealth of traffic, conversion, and social data. Analyzing your competitors' blogs isn't so easy, but it is important. Proper competitive analysis can lead to new content ideas, better outreach, better guest posting opportunities, insights on marketing, and other helpful data that can improve your marketing ROI. In short, if you’re not analyzing your competitors’ websites, you're missing out.

In the business of Internet Marketing and Social Media, there is a lot of stalking done in efforts to target our marketing message or put our brand in front of the right people. Getting your demographics right and then finding those people online, who are freely putting most of their information out there for all to see, is the simplest and most affordable way to get the most leverage out of your brand and content.

As we move forward into the New Year, taking a look back at LinkedIn can help you and your company analyze how to go about making changes to your own website, what navigation and usability changes worked (and didn’t work) for the public, and on a different note, how your company can fully take advantage of LinkedIn and its new advancements.

This post will look at Facebook ad images and understanding why particular ones stand out so that you can apply the lessons to your own Facebook campaigns. At Trialreach I do a lot of multivariate analysis of Facebook ads and it is important to learn from what is working on other ads to feed my multivariation beast.